Classic route
Gautrain
Johannesburg → Pretoria · South Africa
Gautrain in pictures
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- Distance
- 56 km
- Fastest time
- 45 min
- Average speed
- 75 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Gautrain (Bombela)
- Train
- Electrostar EMU
- Countries
- South Africa
- In service since
- 2010
- Riders per year
- ≈ 7.9M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
South Africa’s 160 km/h Electrostars dive under Sandton’s bank towers, stitching Johannesburg to Pretoria in under an hour.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1026727 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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